Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl

[ILOHTFAHA (Aida Man)]

Posted: 7/7/13 at 10:31pm

Does anyone have any inside info?

[blaxx]

Posted: 7/7/13 at 10:47pm

Yes

[ILOHTFAHA (Aida Man)]

Posted: 7/7/13 at 11:17pm

What is it. And if you're pulling my leg one word DON'T

[ILOHTFAHA (Aida Man)]

Posted: 7/7/13 at 11:29pm

Sorry to double post, but with Samantha Barks playing Velma, are they going to cast young for Roxie? Not teenage young, I'm talking Amanda Seyfried young

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 7/7/13 at 11:31pm

Someone on the other thread said Julianne Hough was gonna play Roxie, not sure if they had real inside info though.

[ILOHTFAHA (Aida Man)]

Posted: 7/7/13 at 11:39pm

Well Julianne is a dancer at heart. Plus she's just the right age to compliment Samantha Barks as Velma

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 7/7/13 at 11:53pm

If it is Julianne Hough, I really need to get down to the Hollywood Bowl. Can she sing it?

[ljay889]

Posted: 7/7/13 at 11:59pm

Roxie requires a very limited range. It was written for Gwen Verdon after her singing voice had seriously declined.

[Plannietink08]

Posted: 7/8/13 at 12:16am

Julianne Hough sounds pretty legit and like mentioned above, she would compliment the casting of Sam Barks. To have a 22 year old against a 40 year old woman would look sad and pretty tacky, a bad mother + daughter story - like Carrie high on viagra.

[wssinsider]

Posted: 7/8/13 at 10:26am

Ashlee Simpson will play Roxie.
Press release will come out this week.

[ILOHTFAHA (Aida Man)]

Posted: 7/8/13 at 11:17am

How do you know?

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Posted: 7/8/13 at 12:21pm

If his name is wssinsider, he obviously has inside information.

Duh.

[ILOHTFAHA (Aida Man)]

Posted: 7/8/13 at 12:29pm

It's not always the case

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:05pm

I would be great for Julianne to be cast as Roxie. She's a phenomenal dancer. How is she as a singer?

[ILOHTFAHA (Aida Man)]

Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:11pm

Well she's pretty good. She's more of a country singer but I think could def. do Roxie.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:19pm

Hough's voice has zero personality and she is the definition of bland. This entire production sounds like the Miscast benefit, seems like a wasted opportunity on so many fronts.

[ILOHTFAHA (Aida Man)]

Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:23pm

Really? Cause I thought Julianne's debut song "That Song in my Head" was pretty good. Vocally I mean

[Wildcard]

Posted: 7/8/13 at 5:36pm

It's confirmed. I'm a little disappointed. I feel like Samantha is too good for the cast they assembled.
Ashlee Simpson to play Roxie

[MCfan2]

Posted: 7/8/13 at 5:45pm

Oh dear.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 7/8/13 at 5:53pm

I'm actually amused by the casting, especially Drew Carey. I was a Whose Line fan back when it originally aired.

[darquegk]

Posted: 7/8/13 at 6:03pm

He has consistently proven himself to be a decent, if not stellar, musical comedy performer. Even back in his days on the Drew Carey show, he made sure to include song and dance consistently, including a memorable full cast performance of "Brotherhood of Man."

[darquegk]

Posted: 7/8/13 at 6:05pm

Also, was Liza Minelli's guest appearance in Chicago the beginning of the gradual trend towards "young and sexy" which, admittedly, she was at the time?

Everything I've read has suggested that the initial idea for Velma and Roxie was to have women in their late forties to mid-fifties. These characters and the other vamps around them would be not girls, not women, but DAMES. Dame is a title of honor now, for women of nobility... there are still "Dames," but there just aren't dames anymore.

[wssinsider]

Posted: 7/8/13 at 6:09pm

told you guys.

Ashlee Simpson is a bad choice indeed.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/8/13 at 6:17pm

Will this be the first time a Roxie does a hoedown jig?

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 7/8/13 at 6:19pm

Did anyone see her in London? She's done it before (not that that means she's any good)